I'm a player from a by-gone era. I am currently re-joining the fray on a private server that is 2.4.3 (Burning Crusade). I was wondering if anyone has links on file for the great guides and such we had back in TBC. It's been a while, I've forgotten a lot of it, and unfortunately I didn't keep the links. I'm going to search through the old forums by hand if need be, but if anyone has the old links on file I would appreciate it - it would save me a ton of time.

Thanks Gab, that second one you found is spot on. I also went to HonorsHammer's blog. I'm sifting through old posts, which is easier because they are tagged. I found several tagged for Gear, including this one, that will help me going through Outlands, which is where I want to be gearing up and getting used to tanking TBC style.

However, there were other builds that took 5/5 reckoning, 5/5 Divine Strength, etc as TBC went on through. In my particular raid though, one of our holy paladins took 5/5 imp devo and the other covered Conc Aura allowing me to run Ret.

Prot-Tree:Improved Devotion Aura's kinda useless as you'll be using Retribution Aura most of the time.Afair precision is very important on Boss fights. Reckoning is quite useful during leveling.Kings if no other pala's around.

Ret-Tree:Ret-/Holy-Paladins got more spare points to spec into IBoM, I'd take Benediction instead.

I do recall some mana issues from time to time, especially when offtanking, as we didn't get much damage. The alternative is Blessing of Might, which was likely provided by one of the other paladins. Blessing division:

Devotion provided quite a bit of armor, but again, was likely to be provided by a Holy Paladin as well.

I'm a little confused, though. Wasn't there an aura talent that increased healing received? I recall that our tank party back in the day consisted of 2 warrior tanks (Commanding Shout, Battle Shout), 1 paladin tank (That aura that increased healing received), 1 holy paladin (Devotion Aura) and 1 Warlock (Imp). Of course, alternatively, you could have the paladin tank run Devotion Aura and replace the holy paladin with a resto druid.

I think I had something along the lines of this, but I'm not sure. I thought I had Improved Seal of the Crusader in there somehow.

Yes, that's it, or at least, the first part of it, and the blue response that it was stickied. There were a lot more posts that made up the guide.

And that could be it. I didn't stick around to the very end of TBC (was hacked, then the GMs left my account frozen for like ages, and I decided that it was nice to step away from WoW for a while. ), so perhaps I was used to an earlier talent build.